8/28/17 Email:
Ya'at'teh' everyone!
Wow what a week...
Ok so I didn't get to play catch with Elder Hardman cuz he forgot his gloves so that was a bummer, but we played a lot of basketball and still had a good time. I told him to write it down for next time so he won't forget. We did have dinner with Christian and Stephanie Nielson and their family, that was a lot of fun, and they are great cooks!
I am getting a little frustrated with some of our investigators, and on Wednesday ( I was on exchanges, and had our district leader's companion with me) we went to their house. I get along really well with everyone in the family, and the father has a desire to learn and do things, but his wife is just struggling with having that desire and keeping her commitments. We have been working on getting them to come to church for a while now. So on Wednesday when we went over there, we were just talking to her cuz her husband wasn't home, and I asked if she would come to church, and then she started listing off all these excuses... I hate excuses, so this is what I told her when she was done giving them... " You know, I heard once that excuses are like buttholes. Everyone has one, and they stink." I straight up said that. We had a good laugh about it and the look on her face was pretty priceless. She was not expecting that, but there were no hard feelings or anything. Well after I said that I asked her again, and then she was like, "Honestly, no." Oh, man, I got so sad. So we were leaving and she had to go pick someone up and she had to drive by our truck so I wasn't going to get in until she stopped her truck to talk. So I stood there and gave the best sad face I could, and it got to her, so she stopped to talk again. Long story short I got her to commit to come to just Sacrament Meeting. Unfortunately she still didn't come, so I'm gonna have to come up with something else to tell her now.
On Saturday morning, at 5:00 AM, a couple of cops rolled up flashing their lights and banging on our door... One asked if we were the missionaries, and we told them yes, and then they asked if we had been driving on a back road the day earlier. I said yes, and then he told us that he was going to give us a ticket because I was driving 20 mph over the speed limit. I tried telling them that we had an emergency and all that jazz, but he wouldn't hear it and bumped up the ticket even more... I then asked him why he didn't give me the ticket they day of, and he said because they lost us. HAHAHAHA I'm just kidding! The only part of that story that is true is that they came at 5:00 in the morning, with their lights and banging on the door. They said they had gotten a call and that it was connected with the church, and they wanted to inspect the building, and look for a phone. So we let them in and let them do their business. The weird thing is that the number that called them wasn't the number for the church, so they said they would just patrol around for a few days or so.
Later that day we were helping some members with some moving and we didn't have our truck, so we were going back and forth between houses walking. Well one of the members had this buggy thing, and so he offered a ride. Well you betcha we took him up on that offer. The only problem was that it had rained earlier that day and so there were puddles and this member liked to get dirty... So he hit a puddle and me and my companion are in our shirts and ties and what not, and we got sprayed with mud. That was so much fun!! But then we were wearing dirty clothes the rest of the day.
Well that's the excitement for this week, my spiritual message went along with the excuses, because they are never good, and would we ever have something between us and returning to live with our Father in Heaven?
Love y'all,
Elder Takis
No comments:
Post a Comment